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ABOUT 75 BOYS TO BUILD BIRD HOMES

Nearly as Many Manual Training Pupils of New Ulm High School Have Already Entered Contest, as Participated Last Year. More Are Expected to Enroll for Competition in Near Future. Freshmen Boys Will Take Part in Endeavor This Year. ———— With nearly 75 boys of the manual training department of the New Ulm high school already entered, and several more to join their ranks within the next few days, the annual bird house building contest, for which the four local banks have offered cash prizes aggregating $25 this year, promises to equal, if not exceed, the banner competition which ...

FREAKISH WEATHER CAUSED BY VARYING OF TEMPERATURES

Rain Saturday Night Made Traffic Unsafe. Many Cars In Ditch. ———— GROUND HOG FAILS TO SEE HIS SHADOW ———— Early Spring Is Assured If Old Omen Is At All Reliable. ———— During the past two weeks the thermometers in New Ulm have almost been put “on the blink”, registering as low as 22 degrees below zero one day and within a space of a comparatively few hours the mercury raced to 38 degrees above the zero mark. The rain storm of Saturday evening raised havoc in this city as far as traffic was concerned but the kids—both big and little—rather ...

COMMERCIAL CLUB ELECTS DIRECTORS FOR ENSUING YEAR

About Twenty Members Were In Attendance At Annual Meet. ———— EXPECT TO CHANGE TO DIFFERENT QUARTERS ———— Will Try To Obtain Rooms In City Hall Building For Meetings. ———— Monday evening the New Ulm Commercial Club met for the first time in several months. After discussing the condition of the club it was decided to hold an election of officers for the ensuing year and leave the future course of the club to the new board. Will Change Quarters The committee which was appointed several months ago to devise some plan whereby the club could be brought ...

Study group lists Hwy.15 bypass as priority item

MANKATO — A bypass for Hwy.15 at New Ulm has been listed as a priority item by a Region 9 group studying needed highway improvements in southern Minnesota. The Hwy. 15 bypass was listed along with other goals presented by Region 9 to Minnesota Highway Department officials at Mankato Thursday night. NEW ULM MAYOR Carl Wyczawski today called the action “very significant” and said it should help speed movement toward providing such a bypass. Wyczawski, who fell on ice Wednesday and cracked a rib, was unable to attend the Thursday meeting. A committee of officials from New Ulm, ...

Butterfield elevator ripped by explosion

BUTTERFIELD — “All I could think of was getting out of there,” said Zelda Hanson, who witnessed the Thursday afternoon explosion which ripped the top off Adrian Elevator, Inc., structure at Butterfield. The blast caused an estimated $100,000 damage and sent two men to the ...

Murky river cuts down ice fishing

The fish houses aren’t on the river as thick as they were a year ago because the darn fish are hard to see. The elements have combined this winter to leave a murkiness in the water. Spearing is the only kind of fishing that goes on down there in winter because, one angler says, for some ...